Privacy

Scorebook for iPhone · Last updated 24 September 2026

What is collected

Nothing. The app makes no network requests of any kind — there is no code in it that talks to a server, ours or anyone else's. Nothing about you, your child, your device or how you use the app is sent anywhere, and there is no server for it to be sent to.

Because nothing is collected, there is nothing for us to look at, sell, lose, or hand over.

What is stored on your phone

Everything you enter lives in the app's own storage on your iPhone:

• Your athlete — the name you type for your child (and a short name used on buttons), a colour, and optionally a graduation year so the app can show "Junior" or "Class of 2028". Siblings are separate athletes.
• Seasons — one per school year and sport, with the name you give it.
• Games — the date, the opponent's name as you type it, home or away, whether it was a postseason game, any notes you add, and the plays you tapped, from which every stat is calculated.
• A schedule, if you choose to add one — upcoming dates, opponents, locations and notes.
• Your settings and automatic backups of the above (see below).

These are ordinary files inside the app's container on your phone. They are included in your iPhone's own encrypted backups (iCloud or a computer), the same as any other app's data, under Apple's terms rather than ours.

What leaves your phone, and only when you tap it

There are exactly two ways data moves, and you start both of them:

• Export — Settings › Export all writes a backup file containing your athletes, seasons, games and schedule into the app's own folder, which you can see in the Files app under On My iPhone › Scorebook. You can also export a single game from its detail screen. Writing the file keeps it on your phone; it goes no further by itself.
• Share — after an export, the app opens the standard iOS share sheet so you can send that file somewhere: AirDrop, Mail, Messages, iCloud Drive, or whatever else you pick. Where it goes, and who can then see your child's name and stats, is entirely your choice, and what happens to it there is governed by whatever service you chose.

Nothing else is transmitted. There is no background sync, no "anonymous usage" ping, no crash reporting service, and no check-in when the app opens.

Your calendar

If you want, the app can fill in your child's game schedule from a calendar on your phone. It asks for calendar permission only at the moment you tap that button, it never asks on its own, and if you say no the app keeps working — you can type the schedule in or import a file instead. When you do allow it, the app reads events only, shows you every game it found before anything is added, and never adds to or changes your calendar.

No accounts, no ads, no analytics

• There is no sign-up, no sign-in, no password, and no email address to give. The app has no concept of an account.
• There is no advertising in the app.
• There are no third-party analytics, attribution, or tracking SDKs in the app. The app has no third-party code in it at all.
• No advertising or tracking identifier is read, and the app never asks to track you across other apps and websites.

If Apple gives us App Store sales and download figures once the app is released, those come from Apple as anonymous totals under Apple's own privacy policy, and they are never tied to your data, which we never have.

Who this app is for

Scorebook is made for a parent or guardian keeping stats for their own child, usually a high-school athlete who is a minor. It is designed to be used by the adult, not by the child, and the App Store listing is not directed at children.

Because of that, the app can hold a minor's name and their sporting record. We want to be plain about what that means: that information is yours and it stays on your phone. We do not receive it, we cannot see it, and no third party receives it. There is no profile being built about your child, nothing is pooled with other families' data, and none of it is used for advertising or sold to anyone — ever.

Two things worth knowing as the adult holding the phone. First, you are also typing other children's information — opponents' names in tennis, teammates in a doubles lineup — so treat an exported file the way you would a team roster, and think before you share it somewhere public. Second, if you use only your child's first name or initials, the app works exactly the same; it never needs a full name.

If you believe a child's information has ended up somewhere it shouldn't have, email us — although, since nothing is ever sent to us, anything the app holds can be deleted by you, on your phone, immediately.

Deleting your data

• A single game: delete it from its detail screen or by swiping it in History. It moves to Settings › Recently deleted, where it can be restored for 30 days and is then removed automatically.
• All of a sport's games: Settings › Sports deletes them together. A safety backup is written first, and the games go to Recently deleted for 30 days.
• An athlete can be archived, which hides them from Home and keeps their games. There is no way to delete an athlete and their whole record from inside the app.
• Everything: delete the app from your iPhone. iOS removes the app's storage with it — athletes, seasons, games, schedule, settings, automatic backups and any exported files still sitting in the app's Files folder. Nothing of it exists anywhere else, so nothing survives, and there is no account to close.

Two caveats that are about your phone rather than about us. Any backup file you exported and then shared somewhere — your email, iCloud Drive, another person's phone — stays there until you delete it in that place. And your iPhone's own encrypted device backup may still contain a copy of the app's data until that backup is replaced or deleted.

This website

The page you are reading is part of mycardsai.com, which uses Google Analytics to count visits. Google sets its own cookies for that and receives the address of the page you viewed. That is a property of this website only — the app contains no analytics whatsoever. The email links on these pages simply open your own mail app; this site has no form and collects nothing from you.

Changes to this policy

Scorebook is built by one person. If a future version ever sends anything off your phone that it does not send today, that change will be stated in the app's release notes and on this page, with the date — not quietly edited in.

Contact

Questions about any of this go to hello@mycardsai.com and a human answers them.